My family owned one ford car. A 1994 Mercury Sable. Biggest POS ever.
The only good thing I have to say about Ford is that I was born too late to have had any chance of coming into contact with an exploding Pinto.
It's been awhile, but Jesus Christ, what assholes.
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One of the tools that Ford used to argue for the delay was a "cost-benefit analysis" of altering the fuel tanks. According to Ford's estimates, the unsafe tanks would cause 180 burn deaths, 180 serious burn injuries, and 2,100 burned vehicles each year. It calculated that it would have to pay $200,000 per death, $67,000 per injury, and $700 per vehicle, for a total of $49.5 million. However, the cost of saving lives and injuries ran even higher: alterations would cost $11 per car or truck, which added up to $137 million per year. Essentially, Ford argued before the government that it would be cheaper just to let their customers burn!
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